Malcolm Lowery – Under the Volcanoe. I have not read it but friends said I should
Tennesee Williams – Night of the Iguana. That’s why Rangers call me Iggy.
Always asking more questions by Clement Ross. May I display a little ego?
New Poems – Rainer Maria Rilke.
Short Stories – Franz Kafka
Collected poems and stories – Edgar Allen Poe.
Modern AMerican Poetry / Modern British Poetry – Louis Untermeyer.
Complete poems – e. e. cummings
The complete stories – Zora Neale Hurston
Before the deluge – Otto Friedrich
Hugo Winners volumes I, II and III – edited by Isaac Azimov
Carson McCullars – The heart is a lonely hunter.
William Shakespeare – Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, MacBeth
The complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales – H.P. Lovecraft
Why we can’t wait – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collected poems – Langston Hughes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
The origins of Marvel Comics and Sons of Origins by Stan Lee
The complete Stories – Zora Neale Hurston
Brotherhood of the Rose – David Morrell
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest – Ken Kesey
Go tell it on the mountain – James Baldwin
Native Son – Richard Wright
The invisible man – Ralph Ellison
Night – Elie Wiesel
Strange Wine – Harlan Ellison
Stranger in a strange land – Robert A. Heinlein
The Sandman – Neil Gaiman
Modern Verse – edited by Oscar Williams
Something wicked this way comes – Ray Bradbury
Man’s search for meaning – Victor Frankl
The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery
Any poetry by Sharon Olds
The American Heritage College Edition Dictionary
Existentialism from Dosteyevky to Kierkegaard by Walter Kaufman
The shock of the new by Robert Hughes.
Some of these books will haunt you. But each and every one will make you think.
I have met so many people who say “I turn my brain off.” Turn it back on and think.
The world needs thinkers, not zombies.
